Big money donors desert Tories and switch to Labour
Big money donors desert Tories and switch to Labour
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People just bribing the next party likely to win as usual.
I really wish we saw sense and removed all party donations. You should not be able to buy legislation and yet we allow under various guises.
Agree. But seems like a complex process to replace. As new parties with new ideas will have no way to push them.
Would take some form of national scheme to ensure all parties got low/no cost time in the media to spread their ideas.
I really don't see that myself. We could easily have a publicly funded platform for campaigns. Where each party has an equal footing in the use of that platform. This would put parties like the greens and LD on the same level as the Tories and Labour. It is a travesty of democracy that we allow donors to pay for the party they agree, and as such having so much sway in the election results. Just ban all other campaign options aside from door knocking and social media. Ban all flyers and paid adverts. If people want a run down on a party there could be one central point.
Of course they do, Labour will be the ones passing the laws in a couple of years and they've shown under their current leadership they are no threat to established interests and will do nothing to change the order of things and since the party has lost so many members it needs the money.
Are Labour now the party of the rich 🤔?
A bunch of pretentious old men playing at running the world, but the world left them behind long ago. We are the future!